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In Reply to: RE: Will some of you guys PLEASE "yIn Suq"??? posted by John Marks on February 02, 2016 at 09:32:57
The story is about Mark Waldrep revealing a fraud behind AudioQuest and their HDMI cables as represented in a YouTube promotional video produced by Home Entertainment by D-Tronics, and involving an employee of AudioQuest, David Ellington. It appears that a second copy of the video on YouTube has recently been taken down at the request of AudioQuest, AudioQuest Post Goes Viral, which contradicts statements from the AQ CEO that they weren't able to get a copy of the video.As John Atkinson mentioned, it's a story that may be of interest to Stereophile readers. The feedback that you're getting on Critics Corner, though, is that his way of telling that story, by posting a letter attempting damage control from AQ CEO Bill Low, was not the right way to tell it. The right way would have been to post a short news article summarizing Mark Waldrep's findings, posting a link to the original article, and posting a link to AQ's response.
Providing such feedback seems to me a more appropriate use of Critics Corner than posting about "how to use audio equipment." There are other forums for that.
Best regards,
Daniel
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Assuming for the sake of discussion that you are right in every respect, what is the point of beating a dead horse? All told, 300 posts?????
Stop reading Stereophile, stop thinking about me, stop thinking about John Atkinson, and take up hand-tying fly-fishing lures.
If that doesn't make a Buddhist out of you, nothing will.
ATB,
John
Mark Waldrep's original posting about AQ was on January 22. By January 26 it had gotten over 6000 hits. He was overwhelmed and stunned by the amount of attention he'd gotten. He's posted more about it since.Prior to his initial posting, his previous posting was one castigating Neil Young claiming that because almost all of the source material in his Pono library had been produced at a time before recordings extended much beyond 20 kHz, his catalog is not really high resolution or high definition and that virtually ALL of the space beyond 20 KHz in Pono is filled with nothing but zeroes but sold at a higher price. BTW personally I am not a believer in being able to hear or sense anything audibly beyond 20 kHz where the threshold of hearing crosses the threshold of pain so I have no dog in this fight either.
I like Dr. Waldrep. We have strong technical disagreements but the discussions always remain entirely civil and on a professional basis, one engineer to another. I wish it were only so in my exchanges with non engineers. I have no emotional investment in equipment or recordings. I just enjoy some of the sound, that's about as far as it goes for me. Others seem to have an entirely different connection to it.
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Engineering ..?I have only seen alot of projecting and conjecture but not much science, did you actually measure your speakers ...? Any data for us ..?
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Why do I feel that no matter what I post here someone will argue with or challenge me over it? That's why I really left years ago. I came back to see if anything changed. Evidently it hasn't. Did you look at Dr. Waldrep's web site I linked to and read his articles? He made the measurements of AQ's posting. Armin whom I think works for JBL or one of its distributors and posts at What's Best web site confirmed the measurements using another method. Got the same results. A copy of the original YouTube video was luckily saved even though the originators tried to wipe it off the internet. Dr. Waldrep will give you a key to watch it on his FTP site if you ask him for it.
Waldrep has sent a copy to Low who will evaluate it. The exchanges between them seem very civil even though they have sharp technical disagreements. Low is not challenging Waldrep on the technical accuracy of this one. He seems to want to get to the bottom of it himself.
What does measurement of my speakers have to do with any of this? I don't have any of those products in question. I notice you post on other sites like Pauls. Let's take it there and we can have a frank exchange where I won't get in trouble with the moderators. It seems defending my positions here when I'm challenged is not acceptable especially as my arguments become increasingly strong.
Fair enuff ....
John, Don't knock us fly Tyers!
Not a country for old men .... :)
If that discussion were gone, your post on gold and silver would be gone too, and it was interesting.
Daniel
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